Nick McKenzie

Nick McKenzie ı̇s an Australian investigative journalist. He has won twenty Walkley Awards, been named twice as Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, and received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He is a former president and life member of the Melbourne Press Club.

McKenzie is known for his work uncovering corruption in politics, business, foreign affairs/defence, human rights issues, policing, and criminal justice. He works for Melbourne's The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review, and has reported for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners and Nine's 60 Minutes. McKenzie's reporting has led to a number of government inquiries and police investigations, including a federal police probe into political donations given by alleged mafia figures.

In June 2023, McKenzie and colleague Chris Masters won what was dubbed the 'defamation trial of the century', a historic federal court lawsuit brought by decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. A judge ruled that four of the six murder allegations against Roberts-Smith—which had been reported on by the journalists and presented in their defence—were substantially true.